The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-27

| not discover any money.
Nearly all the churches in Orlando were
! closed Sunday evening in order that every
| body might attend the temperance meeting
| in the opera house. A large crowd was
| present, and the exercises were very inter
esting. DIR. Dickinson and Rev +. n.
Bailey delivered addresses which were well
received. The zeal displayed by the tenn
| perance people of Orlando shows that the
| cause will not be allowed to suffer in their
hands. Other meetings will be held soon.
Judge Mershon, of Orlando was in ks
simmee Tuesday on legal business, and also
showing a couple of his old Georgia friends
around the place. Judge J. +. Nelson, OF
| Brunswick, and H. II. Dickson, of Atlanta,
are prospecting for a point to engage in
! large wholesale and retail mercantile bust
ness, and were looking over Kissimmee
| with that end in view. They seemed well
pleased with the outlook, but decided to
| look South Florida over before deciding OH
any point.
Last Saturday morning, City Marshal
Engleman, of Leesburg, received a tele-
! gram from &. j. Mccoy, of Dade City, di-
| rectiug him to arrest one S. III. Williams,
who was thought to be coming up on the
Florida Southern north bound train. Ac-
cordingly, when the train arrived, Engle-
man boarded it, and without any difficulty
| spotted his man and arrested him. Will
Jams has boon contracting mason at Dade
City, and is accused of having embezzled
| some S400 or $500 collected for and due his
subordinates.
+. E. Saxon, Clerk of the Circuit Court,
has received letter from Judge Mitchell
stating that he would not be able TO hold
court in fernando on the first Monday i'll
| October, as usual, because the last Legisla-
| ture appointed that day for the fall term of
court in Citrus county and made no provis-
| ion for holding fall term in fernando.
| This being true, the only chance to get
| fall term of court at all is to induce Judge
| Mitchell to hold a special term. The same
state of affairs in regard to the fall term of
| court exists in Polk comfy.
g. D. Horton, of Sumtervlle, who has
lime mine there, has a lot of geological
| specimens which are quite a curiosity.
| They consist chiefly of petrified coral and
sea mollusks, the most interesting being a
large stone crab, and all were taken from a
depth IL feet below the surface of the
| ground. At this depth Mr.. Horton has dis
| covered an inexhaustible deposit of the
| finest kind of lime formed from an immense
| quantity of decomposed OCEAN shells, and he
| is now engaged in taking out the lime and
shipping it to other points. In digging out
the lime he finds many curiosities similar to
those described.
At Molino at the residence of Harrison
Sunday, may be seen fair exhibition of
what may be done on average Florida soil
| with such attention to cultivation as is
| everywhere given to soil that is expected to
| produce a crop. Mr.. Sunday is a creole,
who has been a resident of Moline for nine
| teen years, and his little farm of six acres
resembles a little paradise in the profusion
of its fruits and flowers. Here may be
| found the finest arbors of scuppernong and
Flower grapes to be seen in the whole
| Al.
| berries, English and black walnutS, as well
as all kinds of vegetables and melons. In
| addition to this the place is notable for pro-
| ducing over 1000 pounds of honey every
! year, this amount being obtained from 100
| hives. Flowers are also grown here in pro-
| fusion, and quite a large sum is realized
| from their sale.
Leesburg Commercial: A few of our
young men have lately taken to the noble
art of boxing An amusing incident oc-
| CURED the otherIday, in connection with this
science, which is too good to be left untold
At the Union Hotel one of our young mon
| whose chief characteristics is his Jehu-like
driving of two-wheeled cart, happened to
have "the gloves" on, when a lanky, mild
| eyed stranger said ''that if there was no OBJ
lection, he would like to try, only no hard
| hitting, of course; it was a game he did not
| understand Having taken the strangers
word for it that he had never had
gloves on before, they started in. The first
round was unsuccessful. In the second the
stranger led out with his left and landed on
a nose that has long been the admiration of
| Leesburg, producing a curious and crimson
/ effect This settled the business While the
| mangled remains Of "Charioteern were
being swept up from the floor, the stranger
was heard to observe in answer to some
| query ''that may be he had had the gloves
| on once or twice BEFORE" The other is now
consoling himself with the Biblical sugges-
ton that all men are liars" and that it's
no use bucking against Canadian profess
! sional.
Leesburg Commercial: A wealthy Rus
| sian merchant now in Moscow who owns a
100-acre orange grove, besides other large
4 interests, in this county, writes to MeSsrs.
Morrison, Stapylton & CO., his representa-
! tives, here, under date of Aug 5, a very
interesting letter, from which we are per
United to make the following extract: at is
strange that, when SO much difficulty is eX-
| perienced in your State i'll keeping oranges
there is in this remote place no difficulty in
procuring excellent Jaffa and Maltese
oranges in perfect condition for the
table and at moderate price. On inquiry
find that they are kept here for only a
short time, and the preserving of them in
fresh condition must be managed abroad |
can speak from trial of the Maltese Blood
oranges, which are imported either by
Odessa or st. Petersburg. The skin was as
tender and the orange as juicy and we'll
favored as they usually are in the most ia
vorable season in England. There seems
| no reason why the same result should not be
obtained in Florida, and this should encour-
age the growers to study the art of pre-
serving the fresh fruit when they know
that it is done abroad on a large scale with
complete success"